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Standard User vinnym70
(newbie) Sat 19-Jun-21 16:44:37
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People's Fibre


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Recently joined People's Fibre in the Braintree area as a bit of a punt - there seems to be very little written about them.

Anyone have any experiences to share? First impressions are very good and I've signed up for 900Mbps symmetric which is on offer at £30pm for 18 months.

Install was very simple and straightforward. Fibre comes to my property via existing ducts so no digging up.
Single hole in the front of the house to allow entry for the fibre, fibre then terminated at an ONT then cat 5e to their supplied Linksys Velop wifi router which seems to be completely 'unlocked'
Standard User tboorman
(fountain of knowledge) Sat 19-Jun-21 17:37:49
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That's a very good price for 900 Mbps symmetric. Have you done any speed tests?
Standard User Fastman3
(member) Sat 19-Jun-21 17:51:15
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whos network are they using


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Standard User tboorman
(fountain of knowledge) Sat 19-Jun-21 18:00:08
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According to https://peoplesfibre.co.uk/cities/braintree:

We’ve installed over 40,000 metres of our full fibre cable in Braintree, which will be able to bring lightning-fast broadband to more than 20,000 homes and businesses.
Standard User sheephouse
(committed) Sat 19-Jun-21 19:08:13
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40,000 metres of fibre to reach 20,000 homes and businesses? Doesn't that mean the properties are only 2m apart on average?
Standard User vinnym70
(newbie) Sat 19-Jun-21 23:13:16
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The Velop wifi router has a speedtest built into it - it claims 942.2 Mbps upload and 897.3 download

I don't generally use any wired devices around the house but a speedtest on a wireless device close to the router (same room) reports 450 up and down on 5GHz wireless.
Standard User vinnym70
(newbie) Sat 19-Jun-21 23:15:56
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I have no idea about the network they're using and that's one of my reasons for posting here.

There seems very little written about this ISP - I'm used to the usual comments about what network an ISP uses, the merits of swapping out the provided routers, etc.

But I see nothing for this ISP that any obvious searching has thrown up.
Standard User pluralist
(member) Sun 20-Jun-21 12:37:43
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In reply to a post by Fastman3:
whos network are they using
The person running People's Fibre appears to be a Icelander, Leo Chong, who seems to have a bit of a problem navigating Companies House smile. Somebody has invested a high six-figure sum (sterling), possibly $1 million, according to the first year accounts.

This makes interesting reading:
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tracert peoplesfibre.co.uk
 Tracing route to peoplesfibre.co.UK [76.76.21.21]
over a maximum of 30 hops: 
  1     3 ms     2 ms     2 ms  homerouter.cpe [192.168.8.1]  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3   115 ms   100 ms   100 ms  172.21.147.65  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.  6    46 ms    36 ms    41 ms  172.21.153.81
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.  8    29 ms    42 ms    46 ms  172.21.128.82
  9    43 ms    38 ms    38 ms  99.82.178.147 10   115 ms    43 ms    36 ms  99.82.178.146
 11    74 ms   100 ms   102 ms  52.94.32.136 12   152 ms   101 ms   316 ms  54.239.100.83
 13   161 ms   308 ms    98 ms  54.239.45.231 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out. 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17   114 ms   100 ms   100 ms  150.222.65.24 18    73 ms   100 ms   100 ms  76.76.21.21
 Trace complete.
I haven't checked the IP addresses on the route, but 76.76.21.21 looks to be Vercel Inc. in California.

Connections: OnePlus 8 Pro, 4G max 165Mbps down, 24Mbps up on Three Mobile, and B311 4G router, tbb tests normally 35-45Mpbs down, 65Mbps off-peak, 9-24 up.
Standard User jchamier
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 20-Jun-21 12:43:45
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In reply to a post by pluralist:
I haven't checked the IP addresses on the route, but 76.76.21.21 looks to be Vercel Inc. in California.
Outsourced website, cheap US hosting I suspect. Would be interesting to get a customer IP address, that might reveal backhaul name.

The website publishes their AS number (AS207449) which some people might be able to locate interconnects?

21 years of broadband connectivity since 1999 trial - Live BQM

Edited by jchamier (Sun 20-Jun-21 12:44:54)
Standard User jpm
(committed) Sun 20-Jun-21 12:54:02
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RIPE shows that it's all Cogent

https://stat.ripe.net/app/launchpad/S1_207449_C13C31...
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